"[1] It also aims to create national-level human genetics societies, and to provide an environment where African scientists can network and collaborate.

[6] The sixth meeting, held in 2009 in Yaoundé, Cameroon inaugurated the Cameroonian Society of Human Genetics (CSHG).

[7] The Society established working groups on communicable and non-communicable diseases, to be led respectively by Sekou F. Traore and Bongani Mayosi.

[4] After the meeting, Philip Mjwara, the Director General of South Africa's Department of Science and Innovation, urged the Southern African Society of Human Genetics (SASHG)—which had existed since 1986[2]—to affiliate itself with the AfSHG.

[9] At the following conference, held in Kigali, Rwanda in 2018, the Society again emphasized the importance of developing infrastructure and resources through local government investment and increased collaboration between institutions across Africa.

Among its goals, it would sample at least 100 ethnic groups from the continent, develop large-scale resource to study gene-environment interplay of diseases in Africa, train African scientists, and establish laboratories and local research capacity.

[4] At the 2009 meeting in Yaoundé, the AGP concept was renamed "Human Heredity and Health in Africa" (H3Africa) to reflect its goals and scope.

[14] As part of the initiative, the AfSHG would develop a database of all universities, institutions, and scientists working on human genetics in Africa.

[3] By 2020, H3Africa had published its milestone paper in Nature—a whole genome analysis of 426 individuals from 50 ethnolinguistic groups in Africa, including previously unsampled populations[16]—and about 300 other manuscripts describing new data and results.